Enriching social media data allows a more robust representation of cultural ecosystem services

Fox, Nathan; Graham, Laura J.; Eigenbrod, Felix; Bullock, James M.; Parks, Katherine E.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101328

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“…While the method seems promising, its efficacy for understanding actual preference has been scarcely investigated. Though others have found little spatial autocorrelation between positive and negative images at large scales (Fox et al, 2021a), our results indicate that this may not be the case for all datasets derived from Flickr. To better understand how social media data can elicit information on CES, it is therefore imperative that the relationship between positive and negative posts be further explored.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Big data from social media websites offer a unique way to study the complex interactions between geodiversity, biodiversity and people generated in Geoparks CES (Fox et al, 2021a). Here we combined social media data from Flickr with the novel visual magnitude approach to viewshed analysis in order to better understand aesthetic CES in a prime example of a UNESCO Global Geopark.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The potential of using semantic analysis as a scalable method for understanding CES is increasingly being explored (Fox et al, 2021a). While the method seems promising, its efficacy for understanding actual preference has been scarcely investigated.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Here, social media datasets, such as those from Flickr, Twitter, and Reddit, are an invaluable resource, due to their high spatiotemporal resolution and the relative ease with which they can be obtained (Fox et al, 2020a). In particular, social media datasets are effective at assessing a range of cultural ecosystem services including aesthetic appeal (Figueroa-Alfaro and Tang, 2017;Van Berkel et al, 2018;Johnson et al, 2019); recreational activities (Mancini et al, 2018;Graham and Eigenbrod, 2019;Fox et al, 2021a); spiritual and religious beliefs (Thiagarajah et al, 2015;Fox et al, 2021b); and identifying trends in geoeducation and geoconservation at tourist attractions (Németh et al, 2021b). However, not all social media posts are related to CES, for example, posts may not pertain to interactions with nature (e.g., photographs of food, text posts about a film), and where posts are about interactions with nature, they may not reflect a positive relationship (e.g., a picture of a fallen tree accompanied text post about damage from a flood).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, not all social media posts are related to CES, for example, posts may not pertain to interactions with nature (e.g., photographs of food, text posts about a film), and where posts are about interactions with nature, they may not reflect a positive relationship (e.g., a picture of a fallen tree accompanied text post about damage from a flood). Social media datasets may therefore need classifying to better represent these positive interactions between people and nature, with previous studies filtering posts based on the content of images (Gosal et al, 2019;Zhao and Han, 2021), or sentiment expressed in textual metadata (Fox et al, 2021a). Here, we address sentiment in terms of where the social media post reflects a positive attitude towards nature (Johnson et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding Landscape Aesthetics Using a Novel Viewshed Assessment of Social Media Locations Within the Troodos UNESCO Global Geopark, Cyprus

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Globally, geodiversity and the associated ecosystem services it provides, are both under threat from anthropogenic pressures and environmental changes. The UNESCO Global Geoparks Programme was established to create protected areas that not only preserve geodiversity but enhance human wellbeing and cultural heritage. Understanding the role geodiversity plays in providing such ecosystem services is necessary for providing holistic conservation priorities that ensure their sustainable use. Studies have extensively used social media data to assess cultural ecosystem services, however, the photographic viewable area, which demonstrates scenic or areas of interest, has been scarcely evaluated. Studies often take crude measurements of viewsheds rather than isolating viewed content. Here, we gather georeferenced images taken inside geopark boundaries from the social media website Flickr as a proxy for aesthetically pleasing viewpoints. To understand what landscape characteristics are visible from these viewpoints we calculate viewshed analysis following the novel visual magnitude approach. The use of magnitude viewshed provides a metric for visual relevancy compared to traditional viewshed approaches that only provide a binary metric representing visible or non-visible. Here, we find that the use of the visual magnitude methodology provides richer information about what is visible than from traditional viewshed analysis. We find that aesthetically appreciated views as inferred by social media within the Troodos Geopark, Cyprus, do not only include natural features such as forest and water but are often related to geodiversity and anthropogenically altered landscapes such as mineral extraction sites and vineyards, for which the geopark is known. These results can help to inform geoconservation practices with the goal of sustainable access and enjoyment of aesthetic services.

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Understanding Landscape Aesthetics Using a Novel Viewshed Assessment of Social Media Locations Within the Troodos UNESCO Global Geopark, Cyprus

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Geodiversity Supports Cultural Ecosystem Services: an Assessment Using Social Media

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Geodiversity is under threat from both anthropogenic activities and environmental change which therefore requires active management in the form of geoconservation to minimise future damage. As research on the role of geodiversity on ecosystem service (ES) provision has been limited, there is a need to improve our understanding of which aspects are most important to providing ES to better inform approaches to its conservation. Here, we focus on the cultural ES of hiking in Wales, UK. Harnessing big data from the social media website Flickr, we used the locations of geotagged images of hiking and a range of spatial layers representing geodiversity, biodiversity and anthropogenic predictor variables in habitat suitability models. To gain a deeper understanding of the role of geodiversity in driving the distribution of this cultural service, we estimated the strength and nature of the relationship of each geodiversity, biodiversity and anthropogenic indicator with hiking. Our models show that three geodiversity (distance from coast, range in slope and range in elevation) and two anthropogenic (distance from greenspace access point and distance from road) variables were the most important drivers of hiking. Furthermore, we assessed the content of the images to understand which features of geodiversity people interact with while hiking. We found that people generally take images of geomorphological and hydrological features, such as mountains and lakes. Through understanding the geodiversity, biodiversity and anthropogenic drivers of hiking in Wales, as well as identifying the geodiversity features people interact with while hiking, this analysis can help to inform future geoconservation methods by focusing efforts on these important features.

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Evaluating Cultural Ecosystem Services Through Geospatial Social Media Data: A Study of Edirne City

Keleş Özgenç,

Dönmez,

Özgenç

2024

J geovis spat anal

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Enriching social media data allows a more robust representation of cultural ecosystem services

Cited by 30 publications

References 77 publications

Understanding Landscape Aesthetics Using a Novel Viewshed Assessment of Social Media Locations Within the Troodos UNESCO Global Geopark, Cyprus

Understanding Landscape Aesthetics Using a Novel Viewshed Assessment of Social Media Locations Within the Troodos UNESCO Global Geopark, Cyprus

Geodiversity Supports Cultural Ecosystem Services: an Assessment Using Social Media

Evaluating Cultural Ecosystem Services Through Geospatial Social Media Data: A Study of Edirne City

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